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A  Clear 


-onsciousness 


OF  THE  \\ 

By^GEO.  E.  W;^HBV!?K-.^^^^^ 


PRICE 


-    TEN  CENTS 


Published  by  GEO.  E.  WASHBURN 
San  Fraiia^do.;;  California;    ;  ;; ,'  * 

•  ' C'?j>YiiiGi£Tti9io' .  ***  ;^  *  j 


PREFACE 

I  can  tell  you  my  knowledge,  but  I  can- 
not make  it  your  knowledge.  Your  ac- 
quiring of  knowledge  lies  within  yourself 
and  through  your  own  right  desires  and  by 
your  own  right  endeavors. 

This  article  teaches,  that  the  way  to  live 
that  is  best  for  one's  self  is:  Keep  your 
body,  both  Mentally  and  Materially  in  as 
near  a  perfect  condition  as  is  possible.  By 
lowering  your  Spiritual  condition,  you  are 
lowering  both  the  mental  and  material  con- 
dition of  your  body,  and  by  neglecting  the 
proper  material  attention  to  your  body,  you 
are  liable   to   injury,    ailments   and   disease. 

To  attain  to  the  knowledge  of  the  basis 
and  understanding  of  some  things  requires 
the  condition  of  a  Clear  Consciousness. 

The  Spirituality  of  a  Clear  Consciousness 
is  in  its  true  and  perfect  condition  in  fact 
and  in  action  and  is  known  and  recogniz- 
able by  the  Clear  Consciousness,  as  well  as 
the  Knowledge  that  the  Spirituality  could 
attain  to,  which  would  include  knowledge! 
of  all  that  concerned  itself.  | 

There  is  nothing  in  either  the  Conscious- 
ness or  the  Material  Reason  of  a  Clear 
Consciousness  between  itself  and  Pure  In- 
telligence. 

The  ^statements  made  .herein  are  based  on 
knowled^  'of  tlm*  WCKfer.  ' 

"G^.  E.   Washburn 
San  Fr^ncisPQ^/'CaJif 01511^      t 


A  CLEAR  CONSCIOUSNESS 

The  receipt  and  recognition  of  an  impres- 
sion is  the  classification  of  the  form  or 
language  of  the  impression.  If  the  manner 
and  means  of  receiving  and  recognizing  an 
impression  are  correct,  the  form  or  lan- 
guage of  the  impression  is  correctly  classi- 
fied and  is  knowledge. 

Knowledge  is  only  possible  to  a  human 
being,  when  its  Material  Reason  or  its 
Senses  and  Material  Reason  come  in  con- 
tact through  Mind,  with  the  subjects  or 
objects  from  which  the  knowledge  is  ob- 
tainable, and  only  then  is  knowledge  ac- 
quired, when  the  manner  and  means  of  re- 
ceiving and  recognizing  knowledge  are  cor- 
rect as  far  as  the  item  of  knowledge  is  con- 
cerned; for  if  a  human  being  is  not  con- 
centrated enough  on  the  subject  or  object 
of  the  knowledge,  its  manner  is  incorrect; 
if  the  human  being's  Material  Reason  or 
Senses  and  Material  Reason  are  not  in  the 
correct  capacity  and  condition  for  truly 
receiving  and  recognizing  the  impression 
from  the  subject  or  object,  its  means  are 
incorrect. 

The  analyzing  or  defining  the  cause  and 
particulars  of  an  impression  received  may 
lead  one  beyond  the  form  or  language  of 
the  impression  and  to  a  review  or  retro- 
spection of  Records  in  one's  Material  Rea- 
son, which  records  may  or  may  not  be 
either  relative,   pertinent  or   parallel   to   the 

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impression  being  analyzed  or  defined.  The 
true  analysis  or  definition  of  an  impression 
or  of  anything  is  possible,  if  the  right 
records  are  in  one's  Material  Reason  to 
provide  the  factors  for  such  analysis  or 
definition. 

While  a  human  being  has  a  wrong  belief 
on  any  line  or  subject,  it  cannot  compre- 
hend knowledge  regarding  such  line  or  sub- 
ject with  which  such  wrong  belief  conflicts. 

A  Clear  Consciousness  has  no  beliefs — a 
thing  is  either  knowledge  or  not  knowledge 
to  it — neither  has  a  Clear  Consciousness 
any  Fear  or  any  desire  of  knowledge  of 
the  affairs  and  actions  of  any  other  human 
being,  except  in  so  far  as  such  affairs  and 
actions  may  concern  itself. 

In  acquiring  knowledge  and  determining 
things,  there  should  be  nothing  in  the 
human  being's  Consciousness  but  the  item 
of  knowledge  or  thing  that  is  being  de- 
termined. 

Any  and  every  action  of  a  human  being 
should  be  so  executed  that  the  Record  of 
it  can  be  dismissed  from  the  human  being's 
Consciousness  at  its  own  Will. 

In  determining  knowledge  or  impressions 
received,  any  imperfection  in  a  human 
being's  Will  or  Character  is  likely  to  estab- 
lish or  limit  the  angle  or  view  point  from 
which  such  determination  is  made. 

A  human  being  who  is  under  obligation 
to  another  may  not  make  correct  deter- 
minations of  some  things  as  it  is  liable  to 
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be  partial  to  the  other  or  to  the  other's 
desires. 

If  a  human  being  has  either  vanity,  con- 
ceit, greed,  deceit,  hatred,  malice,  envy, 
jealousy,  revenge,  or  the  desire  to  domineer 
over  or  subordinate  life  and  action  of  an- 
other among  its  characteristics,  it  is  in  its 
Consciousness  and  Will  to  gratify  its  charac- 
teristics, and  such  human  being  is  liable  to 
determine  some  things  from  such  an  angle 
or  view  point  as  will  furnish  a  basis  for  the 
gratification    of    its    characteristics. 

To  illustrate  how  determinations  of  hu- 
man beings  are  guided  by  human  character- 
istics— some  human  beings  have  determined 
that  their  God  has  as  characteristics,  jeal- 
ously, desire  to  domineer  over  and  revenge 
— a  Perfect  human  being  would  not  have 
any  of  the  aforesaid  characteristics,  so 
such  human  beings  have  determined  their 
God  to  be  inferior  to  a  Perfect  human 
being. 

As  the  acquiring  of  knowledge  is  de- 
pendent on  the  development  and  condition 
of  the  manner  and  means  that  a  human 
being  has  at  its  disposal,  it  is  evident  that 
the  first  step  to  take  in  acquiring  knowledge 
is  to  endeavor  to  perfect  such  manner  and 
means. 

It  is  not  required  that  a  human  being  be 
either  a  recluse  or  a  hermit  in  order  to  at- 
tain to  the  state  of  Clear  Consciousness. 

A  Clear  Consciousness  is  a  Consciousness 
whose  Will  is  manifested  in  no  Form  but 
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that  of  its  own  Personality  and  whose  Ma- 
terial Reason  has  no  wrong  beliefs  among 
its  Records. 

I  have  named  the  Brain  as  the  Material 
Reason,  as  Records  that  it  contain  furnish 
the  basis  for  the  reasonings  and  determina- 
tions made  by  Consciousness  which  is  the 
Determinator. 

A  Thought  is  the  Consciousness  of  an 
impression  received  by  one's  Material  Rea- 
son, or  is  the  result  of  one's  Reasoning,  de- 
termination or  interpretation  of  or  from 
one  or  more  impressions  received  by  one's 
Material  Reason;  one  may  or  may  not  be 
consciousness  either  of  the  basis  or  process 
of  reasoning,  determining  or  interpreting 
the  Result  which  one  becomes  conscious  of. 

Every  thought  that  a  human  being  has 
is  based  on  some  impression  or  impressions 
that  it  has  received. 

A  perfect  human  being  could  control 
the  line  or  subject  of  its  thoughts,  except 
when  such  human  being  should  be  in  need 
of  bodily  attention  when  its  Material  Rea- 
son would  inform  the  Will  of  such  human 
being's  needs;  for  instance  when  such  hu- 
man being  required  food. 

The  influence  or  control  which  the  Will 
or  Character  of  a  human  being  exercises 
over  the  line  or  subject  of  its  thoughts  is 
evident — a  human  being  of  Good  Will  and 
Character,  though  it  may  have  Records  in 
its  Material  Reasons  of  how  it  would  be 
possible  to  injure  another  human  being; 
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such  records  are  not  likely  to  be  the 
thoughts  of  a  human  being  of  Good  Will 
and  Character. 

The  Spirituality  of  a  human  being  is  a 
Unit  and  is  also  a  quantity. 

The  Spirituality  of  a  human  being  has 
two  component  parts,   Will  and  Mind. 

The  Will  of  a  humin  being  is  the  In- 
dividual, the  Character;  an  instigator  and 
qualifier  of  force  and  action. 

Will  is  in  the  form  of  molecules  and  a 
Soul  is  composed  of  a  number  of  these 
molecules; these  molecules  are  separable  and 
have  the  power  or  faculty  of  movement.  A 
complete  and  perfect  Soul  signified  the 
complete  and  perfect  Individuality  in  its 
own  form,  that  is,  there  are  none  of  its 
molecules  of  Will  manifested  outside  of  its 
own   personality. 

The  Mind  of  a  human  being  provides 
both  Life  and  Intelligence  to  the  Will  and 
to  the  actions  of  Will — Mind  has  the  prop- 
erty of  extension. 

Mind  is  incorruptible — that  Mind  in  pro- 
viding life  and  intelligence  to  the  actions 
of  Will  is  a  demonstration  of  the  Freedom 
of  Will  of  a  human  being — Mind,  though  it 
may  be  forced  by  Will  to  maintain  the  life 
of  an  imperfect  action  is  not  thereby  cor- 
rupted, Mind  has  not  instigated  the  action, 
but  is  simply  maintaining  the  life  of  some- 
thing that  is  a  fact  and  true. 

It  is  not  required  to  maintain  the  life  of 
a  human  being,  that  all  of  a  human  being's 
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Spirituality  inhabit  or  occupy  its  body. 

If  Spirituality  (Will  and  Mind)  is  Eter- 
nal, it  does  not  signify  that  each  and  every 
Soul  is  always  or  continuously  in  existence 
in  its  complete  and  perfect  form. 

It  is  required  that  Spirituality  cause  and 
maintain  all  life  and  action;  Will  to  cause 
and  Mind  to  maintain. 

Material  Reason  is  material  and  is  sub- 
ject to  affect  by  material  acts  and  things, 
including  material  injury,  disease  and  the 
wrong  diet  of  the  human  being. 

Conscientiousness  is  the  highest  principle 
of  Material  Reason;  it  is  the  principle  and 
function  which  by  its  degree  of  develop- 
ment and  condition  determines  the  condi- 
tion of  the  Spirituality  of  a  human  being. 
When  a  human  being's  Conscientiousness 
is  fully  developed  and  in  perfect  condition, 
the  Spirituality  of  the  human  being  is  in 
perfect  condition. 

A  human  being  cannot  comprehend 
Spirituality  beyond  the  capacity  and  con- 
dition of  its  Material  Reasoning  faculties  of 
Conscientiousness  any  more  than  compre- 
hend Mathematics  beyond  the  capacity  and 
condition  of  its  Material  Reasoning  faculties 
of  Mathematics. 

The  process  of  Material  Death  cannot  be 
mentally  unpleasant  to  a  human  being 
whose  Conscience  is  clear  at  the  time  by 
such  human  being's  understanding,  the 
human  being  may  then  realize  or  its  un- 
conscious reasoning  may  so  influence  the 
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state  of  its  mentality,  that  the  Individual  is 
leaving  the  body  that  is  unfit  for  further 
occupancy  and  that  it  is  dying  without  any 
regrets  of  the  past. 

It  does  not  always  signify  that  a  human 
being  dying  with  its  understanding  as  having 
a  clear  Conscience  has  Spiritually  perfected 
itself;  it  signifies  that  the  human  being  is 
satisfied  with  the  ending  of  its  life  at  a 
standard  of  perfection  set  by  its  Conscious- 
ness at  the  time. 

When  a  human  being  is  unable  to  ma- 
terially perform  the  function  of  living, 
Spirituality  leaves  its  body  and  death  en- 
sues. 

The  duration  of  time  of  the  life  of  a 
human  being  may  be  conditioned  by  either 
one  or  both  of  the  following  causes,  viz: 
when  it  is  materially  imperfect  at  birth  and 
when  imperfect  conditions  affect  or  act  on 
it  after  birth. 

TTiat  one's  Material  Reason  is  a  store 
house  of  the  impressions  received  and  of 
determinations  made  of  things  is  evident 
from  the  fact  that  a  human  being  may  have 
its  Material  Reason  made  defective  by  ma- 
terial injury  or  put  in  an  imperfect  condi- 
tion by  either  disease  or  the  wrong  diet,  its 
Consciousness  cannot  overcome  either  any 
defects  or  imperfect  condition  in  recalling 
Records  which  may  have  been  rendered 
silent  by  such  injury,  disease  or  wrong  diet 
until  the  material  effect  of  such  injury, 
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disease    or    wrong    diet    has    either    abated, 
withdrawn  or  been  overcome. 

A  Soul,  when  in  the  State  of  Perfection 
and  with  no  living  manifestation  either  of 
itself  or  of  its  actions  existant,  has  a  place 
of  sojournment,  the  substance  of  which 
place  is  of  the  nature  of  the  substance  of 
itself — and  a  Soul  at  such  place  of  sojourn- 
ment, cannot  depart  from  its  pure  Spiritu- 
ality as  there  is  no  material  at  such  place 
with  which  to  manifest  any  departure  from 
pure  Spirituality. 

It  is  evident  that  every  Individual  who 
is  born  Spiritually  imperfect  has  before  its 
present  life,  lived  a  previous  material  life 
or  lives  during  which  it  departed  from  its 
Individuality  or  Spiritual  Perfection. 

In  the  reincarnation  of  an  Individual,  the 
Individual  begins  its  life,  as  regards  to 
Spiritual  condition  the  same  as  it  left  its 
previous  life. 

The  compliment  of  an  Individual  is  that 
part  of  its  conditions  and  actions  that  is 
manifested  apart  from  its  personality,  such 
compliment  requiring  the  use  of  Spirituality 
of  the  Individual  for  its  maintenance. 

Anything  to  be  Perfect,  must  be  com- 
plete and  perfect  in  Form — thence  any 
condition  or  action  that  causes  a  Soul  to  be 
incomplete  or  imperfect  in  Form  is  a  de- 
parture  from   Perfection. 

When     a    Soul     manifests    itself     in     this 
World,   the  Will  of  the  Soul  passes  to  and^ 
for    the    use    of   its    material    manifestation,  : 
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the  human  being;  the  Soul  then  becomes  the 
Servant  of  the  human  being  and  has  no 
power  of  initiative  to  use  for  itself. 

In  whatever  the  conduct  of  the  Individual 
that  departs  from  Perfection,  the  Soul  fur- 
nishes the  Consciousness  or  the  life  and  in- 
telligence to  the  manifestation  of  such  de- 
parture and  consequently  the  Individual  is 
deprived  of  the  quantity  of  Spirituality  that 
the  Consciousness  of  these  departures  re- 
quires for  their  manifestation,  until  such  de- 
partures have  been  recalled  by  the  In- 
dividual. 

It  is  the  order  and  plan  of  the  existence 
of  human  beings  in  this  World,  that  they, 
each  and  all  are  entitled  to  the  same  con- 
sideration and  any  act  of  departure  from 
Perfection  has  its  effect  on  the  Individual 
causing  it,  whether  or  not  the  Individual  is 
conscious  of  the  act  being  a  departure  from 
Perfection,  or  whether  or  not  the  Individual 
is  conscious  of  the  effect  caused  by  such  de- 
parture. 

A  human  being  has  Freedom  of  Will  to 
act  as  it  desires,  up  to  its  intelligence,  ca- 
pacity, means  and  condition,  unless  re- 
sisted, restricted  or  limited  by  an  act  or 
acts   of   another   or   other   human   beings. 

There  can  be  certain  actions  of  a  human 
being  that  depart  from  its  Individuality, 
and  in  the  process  of  the  manifestation  of 
these  certain  actions,  molecules  of  Will, 
characterized  by  these  certain  actions,  move 
or  depart  from  its  Soul  and  attach  them- 
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selves  to  those  elementary  forms  of  pos- 
sible material  Consciousness  that  will  ma- 
terially manifest  their  characteristics. 

An  Individual  is  an  entirety  in  itself,  and 
when  one  Individual  goes  beyond  or  out- 
side of  its  Individuality  and  attempts  to 
appropriate  of,  subordinate  or  domineer 
over  the  life  and  action  of  another  In- 
dividuality, it  is  departing  from  its  own 
Individuality  or  Perfection;  and  by  such 
act,  molecules  of  its  Will,  characterized  by 
such  act  move  or  depart  from  its  Soul,  to 
the  deprivation  of  its  Soul  of  the  quantity 
of  Spirituality  that  is  required  to  manifest 
and  maintain  the  manifestation  of  such 
act,  leaving  such  Soul  incomplete  in  form, 
until  such  Individual  has  changed  its  charac- 
ter or  recalled  such  act  of  departure; 
whether  such  change  of  character  or  recall 
be  in  one  minute  or  not  until  the  Individual 
has  lived  a  number  of  incarnations. 

No  molecules  of  Will  that  are  not  of  the 
character  of  pure  Spirituality  can  remain 
or  form  part  of  a  Soul. 

In  the  reincarnation  of  an  Individual  who 
has  departed  from  Perfection,  it  will,  if 
such  departure  is  still  in  existence  as  a  de- 
parture be  of  a  lower  degree  as  regards 
Consciousness  or  capacity  of  reasoning 
faculties  as  Consciousness  that  is  not  purely 
Spiritual  or  not  in  the  form  of  the  Soul  can- 
not be  manifested  in  the  form  of  a  human 
being;  the  form  of  a  human  being  is  the 
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manifestation  of  the  Soul  or  only  pure  Con- 
sciousness. 

An  Individual  is  born  with  the  same 
material  basis  for  capacity  of  Conscien- 
tiousness and  faculty  of  comprehension  as 
is  its  Intuitional  capacity  and  extent  of 
its  use  of  its  Will  Spiritually. 

We  cannot  say  that  any  human  being  is 
born  with  evil  in  its  Consciousness,  as  what 
Material  Reason  a  human  being  has  at 
birth  is  Spiritually  pure  and  has  no  Records 
of  any  past  life.  We  can  say,  that  some 
human  beings  are  born  with  a  deficit  as  re- 
gards reasoning  faculties,  which  deficit  can 
be  either  maintained,  reduced  or  enlarged, 
according  to  what  the  conditions  and  ac- 
tions of  the  human  being  are  during  its 
lifetime. 

One  human  being  cannot  domineer  over 
or  subordinate  life  and  action  of  another 
human  being  through  purely  Spiritual 
means — any  action  that  is  done  in  response 
to  a  thought  transmission  is  done  by  and 
with  the  Free  Will  of  the  receiver  of  such 
transmitted  thought. 

A  human  being  who  sacrifices  its  Con- 
science, is  depriving  itself  of  the  use  of  its 
Will  Spiritually  and  a  human  being  who 
has  departed  to  a  certain  degree  from  pure 
Spirituality  or  Individuality  cannot  convey 
or  transmit  a  thought  to  another  by  the 
sole  use  of  its  Spirituality. 

The  order  and  plan  of  the  existence  of 
human  beings  in  this  World  is  most  per- 
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fectly  beneficent;  as  I  have  stated  pre- 
viously, there  are  no  Records  in  the  Ma- 
terial Reason  of  a  human  being  of  any 
past  life,  so  the  author  of  any  specific 
wrong  act  cannot,  after  its  material  death, 
be  identified  either  by  its  own  reincarna- 
tion or  by  any  other  human  being. 

There  is  no  Will  other  than  the  Wills  of 
human  beings  that  acts  on  or  affects  the 
conditions  of  life  of  human  beings  in  this 
World  and  only  human  beings  and  their 
Souls  can  be  affected  by  the  condtions 
and  actions  that  exist  and  take  place. 

A  human  being  is  impairing  the  condi- 
tion of  its  Spirituality  when  it  commits  one 
or  any  of  the  following  actions: 

When  one  deceives  another,  as  it  is  sub- 
ordinating the  use  of  the  other's  Material 
Reasoning  faculties  to  a  false  use,  thereby 
lowering  the  capacity  of  the  other  to  reason 
correctly. 

When  one  domineers  over  the  life  and 
action  of  another;  If  a  human  being  is 
domineered  over  and  realizes  such  domin- 
ation, such  human  being's  Will,  Material 
Reason  and  other  bodily  organs  and  func- 
tions cannot  work  in  harmony  and  unison 
and  the  effect  is  injurious  to  the  Mental 
and  Material  condition  of  the  one  domin- 
eered over.  If  a  human  being  domineered 
over  does  not  realize  such  domination,  the 
effect  on  such  domineered  over  one  is  to 
retard  the  development  of  its  Material 
Reason. 

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When  one  appropriates  property  of  an- 
other, it  is  depriving  the  other  of  some- 
thing that  is  a  part  of  the  other's  action 
or  existence. 

One  should  avoid  as  much  as  possible 
the  making  of  promises  and  the  assumption 
of  obHgations.  A  promise  made  or  an  ob- 
Hgation  assumed  defeats  individuahty  and 
freedom  of  Consciousness:  an  action  which 
today  may  seem  possible  of  accomplish- 
ment may  on  tomorrow  be  found  impos- 
sible of  accomplishment.  One  way  of  ac- 
tion under  a  given  circumstance,  which  at 
the  present  time  may  seem  right,  may  later 
on  appear   wrong. 

One  should  never  exact  a  promise  from 
another  nor  ask  another  to  keep  a  secret 
— as  such  acts  are  acts  of  attempted  dom- 
ination over  the  individuality  and  freedom 
of  the  other. 

Do  not  pray  to  or  worship  anything  that 
is  either  real  or  imaginary — worship  and 
prayer  signify  either  superstition,  fear  or 
lack  of  confidence  in  one*s  self. 

A  human  being  would  not  be  Free  if 
under  any  obligation  to  either  worship  or 
pray. 

Do  not  utter  derogatory  remarks  regard- 
ing another's  character,  you  may  not  know 
the  other's  character  and  even  if  you  did 
know  the  other's  character  at  one  time, 
the  other  may  have  changed  its  character 
a  minute  later,  so  that  your  remarks  may 
be  false  or  untrue  when  uttered. 
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There  is  no  connection  between  Mind 
and  Body,  there  is  connection  between  the 
Brain  or  Material  Reason  and  other  bodily 
organs  and  functions. 

The  relationship  between  Mind  and  Body 
is,  that  Mind  is  only  effectively  operative 
in  a  human  being  as  a  provider  of  life  and 
intelligence  up  to  the  Material  develop- 
ment, capacity  and  condition  of  the  human 
being — also  that  the  human  being's  ma- 
teriality is  only  effectively  operative  up 
to  the  continuosity  and  quantity  of  Mind 
occupying  its  body;  which  last  condition  is 
sometimes  governed  by  the  condition  of  a 
human  being's  Mentality,  for  instance  when 
a  human  being  has  Fear,  in  which  case, 
part  or  all  of  the  human  being's  Conscious- 
nesss  is  on  the  object  and  the  manifesta- 
tion of  its  Fear  and  not  fully  providing 
the  human  being  life  and  intelligence. 

While  a  human  being  has  either  vanity, 
conceit,  greed,  deceit,  anger,  hatred,  envy, 
jealousy,  malice,  revenge,  the  desire  to 
domineer  over  or  subordinate  life  and 
action  of  another,  it  cannot  have  the  full 
and  perfect  use  of  its  Material  Reasoning 
faculties  either  Mentally  or  Materially  as 
such  characteristics  are  not  of  Individuality 
or  Perfection  and  concern  the  individuality 
of  others,  and  the  gratifying  of  such  char- 
acteristics is  employing  the  Material  Reason 
and  its  accompanying  Consciousness  for  a 
purpose  for  which  it  is  neither  intended  nor 
constructed  for. 

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It  is  required  for  the  welfare  of  the  ma- 
terial condition  of  a  human  being  that  the 
connection  and  relationship  between  its 
Brain  or  nerve  centers  and  other  bodily 
organs  and  functions  be  kept  full,  clear  and 
continuous.  In  the  gratifying  of  any  of  the 
aforesaid  characteristics  a  human  being  is 
withdrawing  its  Spirituality  from  its  Brain 
or  nerve  centers  to  the  impairment  of  the 
condition  of  such  full,  clear  and  continuous 
connection,  leaving  both  its  Brain  or  nerve 
centers  and  other  bodily  organs  and  func- 
tions in  a  depleted  state  as  regards  the 
use  of  Spirituality  to  provide  the  required 
life  and  Intelligence  for  their  proper  work- 
ings; as  any  characteristic  or  act  which  is  a 
departure  from  Individuality  or  Perfection 
must  be  manifested  apart  from  the  human 
being  and  such  manifestation  of  departure 
requires  the  use  of  Spirituality  of  the  human 
being  for  its  manifestation  and  mainte- 
nance to  the  deprivation  of  the  use  of  such 
Spirituality  for  the  human  being's  person- 
ality. 

Pangs  of  Conscience  are  but  the  desires 
of  Consciousness  to  regain  its  Individuality 
and  Freedom. 

A  Clear  Consciousness  has  no  secret  re- 
garding either  itself  or  its  actions  and  a 
clear  Consciousness  cannot  tell  a  secret  of 
another,  as  of  another's  secret,  it  has  no 
knowledge  as  it  cannot  always  define  the 
cause  and  particulars  of  such  secret. 

A  Clear  Consciousness  cannot  always 
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judge  another's  character  by  some  of  the 
other's  actions,  some  of  the  other's 
actions  may  have  been  caused  by 
a  wrong  beHef  or  done  at  the  Will  or  in- 
stigation  of  some   other  human  being. 

The  character  of  a  human  being  may  be 
Superior  to  some  of  its  actions. 

Our  actions  are  too  much  influenced  by 
fear,  existing  conventionalities  and  clock- 
time. 

We  use  clock-time  by  which  to  rest  and 
to  eat — a  human  being  should  rest  when- 
ever and  as  long  as  its  body  requires  it — 
and  eat  whenever  it  is  hungry  until  its  ap- 
petite is  satisfied.  It  is  a  function  of  one's 
Senses  to  inform  the  human  being's  Con- 
sciousness through  its  Material  Reason  when 
and  how  its  body  needs  attention. 

If  every  human  being  should  utter  as 
the  Truth  and  knowledge  only  that  which 
is  known  to  it  to  be  such,  it  is  evident  that 
the  next  generation  would  be  freer  from 
wrong  beliefs  and  Superstition  and  have 
better  mental  and  material  condition  than 
the  present  generation.  As  the  Material 
Reason  of  a  human  being  is  the  Guide  to 
its  actions  both  Mental  and  Material,  it  is 
evident  that  the  freer  such  Material  Reason 
is  of  wrong  beliefs  and  superstition,  the 
nearer  to  Perfection  will  be  its  guidance 
mentally  and  its  workings  materially.  All 
wrong  beliefs  and  superstition  are  mani- 
fested materially  at  the  expense  of  the 
human  being's  Spirituality  that  has  them. 
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The  present  conditions  of  life  in  this 
World  are  too  complex  and  too  mechanical. 
Mankind  has  been  increasing  the  variety  of 
its  usage  of  material  things.  We  can  take 
the  same  materials  and  make  either  guns 
or  cash  registers,  but  what  would  be  the 
requirement  of  either  guns  or  cash  regis- 
ters if  the  actions  of  human  beings  in  this 
World   were   perfect. 

Mankind  has  been  increasing  the  variety 
of  its  usage  of  material  things  and  is  there- 
by enabled  to  either  prevent,  combat, 
alleviate  or  allay  some  of  the  ill  effects  re- 
sulting or  that  may  result  from  imperfect 
actions  and  conditions,  and  by  the  same 
increasing  usage  of  material  things  is  en- 
abled to  still  further  increase  and  augment 
the    imperfect    actions   and    conditions. 

How  many  words  and  terms  in  our 
Dictionaries,  the  use  of  which  could  be  dis- 
pensed with  if  the  actions  of  human  beings 
and  the  conditions  of  life  in  this  World 
were  perfect. 

The  Superstition  and  imperfect  condi- 
tions at  present  existing  in  this  World  have 
all  been  caused  by  imperfect  actions  of 
mankind — and  mankind  can  by  limiting 
its  Thoughts  and  actions  to  the  guidance 
of  Intelligence  cease  the  continuation  of 
the  causes  required  for  the  perpetuation  of 
such  Superstition  and   imperfect  conditions. 

The  workings  of  Nature  and  the  forms 
and  characteristics  of  animal  and  vegetable 
life  are  the  compliment  to  the  conditions 
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and  actions  of  human  beings. 

Nature  has  no  Will. 

An  animal  has  no  volition  of  any  Will, 
but  to  act  out  the  characteristics  which  it 
is  born  with  and  are  its  true  nature,  except 
in  instances  where  mankind  has  changed  the 
animal's  characteristics. 

A  human  being  of  its  own  volition  can 
change  its  character,  which  illustrates  its 
Freedom  of  Will.  Mankind  governs  the 
working  of  Nature  and  the  forms  and 
characteristics  of  animal  and  vegetable  life 
party  consciously  and  partly  unconsciously. 

Mankind  would  not  be  the  Superior 
creation  in  the  World  if  governed  by  Nature 
and  the  animal  and  vegetable  life  of  the 
World. 

The  Soul  of  a  human  being  is  illumed. 

The  molecules  of  Will  of  an  animal  are 
not   illumed — an   animal   has  no   Soul. 

The  basis  of  Love  that  one  human  being 
may  have  for  another  is  that  a  human  being 
either  recognizes  or  imagines  in  the  other 
some  characteristic  or  characteristics  that 
meet  with  its  approbation. 

A  human  being  can  have  a  Good  Will 
for  and  toward  all  other  human  beings  and 
may  Love  only  some  of  the  human  beings 
that  it  has  met. 

The  fullness  of  Life  of  a  human  being  is 
not  complete  until  the  human  being  has 
for  a  mate,  one  of  the  opposite  sex,  be- 
tween whom  and  itself  there  exists  a  love 
and  attachment  that  is  both  steadfast  and 
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constant;  the  higher  their  development  and 
condition  of  Spirituality  is,  the  nearer  per- 
fection will  be  their  intuition  of  each  other's 
desires  and  requirements — one  should  have 
no  secret  from  the  other — the  Will  of  one 
is  for  the  use  of  the  other,  not  by  subordin- 
ation or  domination,  but  voluntarily — the 
contentment  and  happiness  of  one  is  re- 
flected in  the  other — such  Love  is  bound- 
less and  of  its  own  accord  is  imperishable 
— if  they  both  should  be  absolutely  Per- 
fect, no  other  human  being  or  other  thing 
need  mar  the  perfect  conditions  of  their 
lives. 

The  order  and  plan  of  the  existence  of 
human  beings  in  this  World  is  absolutely 
just.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  the  condi- 
tions of  a  human  being's  life  being  pre- 
ordained. 

A  cause  of  the  discomforture  of  any 
human  being  has  originated  within  its  own 
Individuality,  either  in  this  or  in  some  past 
material  life  or  lives — such  cause  being  the 
imperfect  condition  of  the  human  beings 
Spirituality  and  intuitional  faculties.  A 
human  being  with  perfect  condition  of  its 
Spirituality  and  intuitional  faculties  need 
not  be  discomforted  either  by  the  act  of 
another  or  any  condition  existing  or  by  its 
own  thoughts — its  own  thoughts  need  only 
be  pure  Intelligence  of  things,  need  not  be 
discomforting  of  anything  or  any  condition 
that  it  had  not  been  a  cause  of. 

The  higher  the  development  and  condi- 
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tion  of  your  Consciousness  and  body,  the 
more  fuller  will  be  your  enjoyment  of  the 
pleasures  of  life,  as  material  enjoyment 
like  material  ills  are  realized  more  keenly 
in  a  human  being  of  a  higher  state  of  de- 
velopment and  condition  than  in  one  of  a 
lower  state  of  development  and  condition. 

The  condition  of  Clear  Consciousness  is 
no  mystery.  Each  Individual  has  the  same 
quantity  of  Consciousness  or  Spirituality, 
the  only  difference  between  a  Clear  Con- 
sciousness and  one  that  is  not  Clear  is, 
that  the  one  that  is  not  clear  is  partly  mani- 
fested apart  from  its  personality. 

Life  should  appear  and  be  most  Beautiful 
to  any  human  being  who  can  comprehend 
the  working  of  Reincarnation  and  realize 
that  it  has  had  and  still  has  in  its  own  Will 
and  actions  the  making  of  its  own  Destiny. 

In  concluding  this  article,  I  will  say  that 
Material  life  for  an  Individual  is  superior  to 
a  purely  Spiritual  life,  otherwise  we  would 
not  be  in  this  World — the  superiority  of  the 
Material  life  lies  in  the  opportunity  for  the 
gratification  of  the  Senses. 

An  Individual  can  only  enjoy  Individu- 
ality and  Freedom  and  the  ultimate  that  is 
possible  in  life  to  the  extent  that  it  has  and 
does  respect  both  in  Thought  and  action 
the  Individuality  and  Freedom  of  each  and 
every  other  Individual. 

Geo.  E.   Washburn 
San  Francisco,  California, 

February  22,    1919. 
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